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1735897

registered interest
date	21/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a national plan to tackle shortages of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	10329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department has been working with suppliers to address current supply issues with Creon, which is a brand of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) used by patients with conditions such as cystic fibrosis and certain cancers including pancreatic cancer. The supply issues with Creon are impacting countries throughout Europe and have been caused by limited availability of raw ingredients and manufacturing capacity constraints to produce volumes needed to meet demand. These issues have resulted in knock-on supply disruptions of alternative PERT medications. The Department is continuing to work with all suppliers of PERT to help resolve the supply issues in the short and longer term. This includes asking that they expedite deliveries, source stock from other markets, and increase production.</p><p>The supplier of Creon has advised that they expect to have regular supplies released each month going forward, and are working to increase the quantities released. Serious Shortage Protocols are in place for Creon 10,000 and 25,000 capsules which pharmacists can use to restrict supply to one month at a time to ensure more patients have access to it whilst stock is limited.</p><p>We have worked closely with colleagues in NHS England to issue comprehensive guidance to healthcare professionals about these supply issues, and encourage sharing of local solutions. The guidance provides advice on how to manage patients whilst there is disruption to supply and is being kept under review, with updates made as necessary.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 25/10/2024 08:42:59 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5317

1735426

registered interest
date	18/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question UIN 7300on Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation, what evidence informed his Department's decision not to regulate vision rehabilitation specialists.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	10013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the potential merits of extending statutory regulation to vision rehabilitation specialists. Whilst statutory regulation is sometimes necessary where significant risks to users of services cannot be mitigated in other ways, it is not always the most proportionate means of ensuring public protection.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 24/10/2024 09:38:57 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5317

1735461

registered interest
date	18/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to improve breast cancer screening in Colne Valley constituency.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	10016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has developed a national plan in collaboration with key stakeholders, including Cancer Alliances, to improve uptake within the breast screening programme. The plan sets out the priorities and interventions, as well as the required monitoring of the impacts and outcomes to be achieved, to improve uptake through expanding access, data, analytics, contracting, communication, and IT developments, while reducing inequalities.</p><p>On a local level, the Kirklees Health and Care Partnership has worked with local public health services to collaborate with homes and neighbourhood housing, to identify areas of low uptake of breast, bowel, and cervical screening, and areas of deprivation combined with areas of council housing. This has resulted in homes and neighbourhood staff actively delivering a pilot focused on promoting the benefits and importance of screening. Working with tenants to understand their level of understanding of screening, their challenges, and the barriers to attendance, and working to overcome these barriers.</p><p>Local public health services have also recently launched a breast screening campaign titled Don’t let it be you, which aims to encourage people eligible for breast screening to go for their screening, and not ignore their letter.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 25/10/2024 11:39:17 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5317

1735463

registered interest
date	18/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of he potential merits of introducing Mental Health Support teams in every school.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	10017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department is working across the Government to consider how to deliver on our commitment of a specialist mental health professional in every school. We need to ensure that any support meets the needs of young people, teachers, parents, and carers. This includes considering the role of existing programmes of support with evidence of a positive impact, such as Mental Health Support Teams in schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 28/10/2024 16:40:37 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5317

1733338

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of access to mental health provision in (a) urban and (b) rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	8608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2024 answer text <p>Integrated care boards are responsible for providing health and care services to meet the needs of their local populations, taking into account local considerations such as access to services in rural areas.</p><p>Too many people are not receiving the mental health care they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are too long. We are determined to change that, which is why we will fix the broken system to ensure we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health. This should help people in rural areas to be confident in accessing high quality mental health support when they need it.</p><p>We will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers across child and adult mental health services in England to reduce delays and provide faster treatment, including in rural areas. We will make sure mental health care is delivered in the community and close to people’s homes, through new models of care and support, so that fewer people need to go into hospital.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 8609 question first answered 22/10/2024 09:21:41 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5317

1733443

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure parity in the adequacy of mental health resources in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	8609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2024 answer text <p>Integrated care boards are responsible for providing health and care services to meet the needs of their local populations, taking into account local considerations such as access to services in rural areas.</p><p>Too many people are not receiving the mental health care they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are too long. We are determined to change that, which is why we will fix the broken system to ensure we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health. This should help people in rural areas to be confident in accessing high quality mental health support when they need it.</p><p>We will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers across child and adult mental health services in England to reduce delays and provide faster treatment, including in rural areas. We will make sure mental health care is delivered in the community and close to people’s homes, through new models of care and support, so that fewer people need to go into hospital.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 8608 question first answered 22/10/2024 09:21:41 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5317

1731472

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer: Colne Valley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve prostate cancer (a) screening and (b) awareness in Colne Valley constituency.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	7282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended by the UK National Screening Committees. This is because of the inaccuracy of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-based screening programme could harm men, as some of them would be diagnosed with a cancer that would not have caused them problems during their life. This would lead to additional tests and treatments which can also have harmful side effects.</p><p>NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of symptoms as well as encouraging ‘body awareness’ to help people spot symptoms across a wide range of cancers at an earlier point.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 14/10/2024 11:38:26 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	5317

1731517

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health: Men
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) raise awareness of and (b) tackle stigma associated with (i) loneliness and (ii) mental health challenges among men.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	7298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>Raising awareness of loneliness across society and reducing the associated stigma for all groups at risk of loneliness, including men, is a core part of the Government’s current approach to tackling loneliness. This includes providing loneliness advice as part of the Better Health: Every Mind Matters campaign.</p><p>The Department for Culture, Media and Support is also supporting organisations which can play a role in reducing loneliness stigma amongst men through the tackling loneliness hub, an online platform that connects professionals from across sectors working to reduce loneliness.</p><p>Men with mental health issues are not getting the support or care they need, which is why we will ensure we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health so that men can be confident of accessing high quality mental health support when they need it. We will modernise the Mental Health Act and we will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers to reduce delays, provide faster treatment and help ease pressure on busy mental health services.</p><p>We have committed to tackling suicide as one of the biggest killers of men and, as part of this, the new mental health workers will be specially trained to support people at risk of suicide.</p><p>We will also continue to work with the wide range of voluntary community and social enterprise organisations such as Men’s Sheds, ANDYSMANCLUB and the Campaign Against Living Miserably which play such an important role in supporting men at risk of mental ill health and suicide.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 17/10/2024 15:35:02 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5317

1731540

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that vision rehabilitation services are subject to the same (a) regulation and (b) monitoring as other adult social care services.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	7299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities in England have a legal duty to support people with sight loss to develop practical skills and strategies to maintain independence.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is now assessing how local authorities are meeting the full range of their duties under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014. These assessments identify local authorities’ strengths and areas for development, facilitating the sharing of good practice and helping us to target support where it is most needed. This will also facilitate the development of national standards as part of our steps towards creating a National Care Service.</p><p>Therefore, although CQC is not currently required to assess vision rehabilitation services as regulated activities under Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, sensory services, including vision rehabilitation, do form part of CQC’s overall assessment of local authorities’ delivery of adult social care. In that context, CQC will report on sensory services when there is something important to highlight, for example, something being done well, innovative practice or an area for improvement.</p><p>Our new Client Level Data collection requires local authorities to collect person-level information covering most of their activity under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014. Information on visual impairments is voluntary at this stage, but this will be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 14/10/2024 08:54:30 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5317

1731541

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making vision rehabilitation specialists a regulated profession.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	7300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>We do not currently have plans to regulate vision rehabilitation specialists.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 14/10/2024 13:05:54 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5317